Online Flash Presentation
Monday, October 13th, 2008Webucator has released a flash movie presenting the benefits of our instructor-led online classes. View it here.
Archive for 2008
Webucator has released a flash movie presenting the benefits of our instructor-led online classes. View it here.
Syntext Serna
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008Syntext is planning a major release of Serna 4 and has just released a minor release 3.6 in April 2008. Alpha Serna 4 is available already. Syntext Serna is a highly customizable, multi-platform, pure XSL-driven WYSIWYG XML content editor. It looks and works like a conventional word processor, yet ...
XML Copy Editor
Friday, May 2nd, 2008Gerald Schmidt was kind enough to share the news of their latest release of XML Copy Editor. This release was January 2008 and release 1.1.0.7 is currently in testing. XML Copy Editor is fast, free and covers most common XML editing tasks: DTD/XML Schema/RELAX NG validation XSLT XPath Pretty-printing Syntax highlighting Folding Tag completion Tag locking Tag-free editing Spelling and style check Built-in support for ...
XmlMessageTest
Friday, May 2nd, 2008Last month's latest release of XmlMessageTest provides an easy way for testers to develop automated tests against XML-based message servers, without having to write code. Gene Mitelman of SmartEdge LLC noted that this release was the result of a user request for the ability to provide more open-ended expected values. The ...
Alchemist XML IDE Freeware
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008We recently communicated with Gustavo Cardona Ramirez of Mentat Technologies regarding release of their new Alchemist XML IDE Freeware. According to Gustavo, this XML product currently has 1,000 users and we wanted to share it with our community. Alchemist XML IDE FREE Edition is a brand new, free graphical ...
Web Accessibility: Why Should You Care?
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008There are several valid reasons why you should learn to make your web sites accessible, but if you had to pick one, and only one, do it because it's the law.Consider the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), a civil rights law that prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities. The ADA ...
A Recession is Coming: Seize the Opportunity!
Monday, March 17th, 2008Everyone is bracing for the recession, which may already be here. According to the Boston Consulting Group, more than 50% of executives believe the recession has already come (article). Companies naturally respond to recessions by tightening the purse strings and the training department is often one of the hardest hit. ...
JavaScript Style Guide Conformance
Thursday, March 13th, 2008We are updating our JavaScript courseware and our JavaScript tutorial and Ajax tutorial to mostly conform with the conventions recommended by Douglas Crockford at http://javascript.crockford.com/code.html and http://javascript.crockford.com/style1.html. First of all, here's what we decided to do. Some of these had already been implemented in our courseware, but we ...
Proper URL Syntax in XSL-FO
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008I recently had a former XSL-FO student tell me she was having problems with graphics rendering in FOP version .094 when using relative paths. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to help her figure out why not. She seemed to have the syntax correct. She used the following syntax, ...
IE7 lacks support for abbreviated color codes in deprecated HTML tags
Sunday, February 17th, 2008A good response to this title might be "who cares?" We all should be using CSS to handle color anyway, right? Sure, that's right. However, I still sometimes use the old deprecated attributes when I'm whipping something small together. I can save a few keystrokes (nine to ...